TRAPPED under a car and seriously injured, security guard Mark Lindley clutched girlfriend Lisa Slater’s hand and asked: “If I get out of this alive, will you marry me?”

Mark Lindley clutched Lisa Slater’s hand and asked: “If I get out of this alive, will you marry me?” []

Mark, 23, had no feeling in his legs and blood was gushing from his head after he was dragged 30 yards under the Citroen Picasso. “I thought I was dying. I realised how much I loved Lisa and I thought: ‘I have to ask her’,” said Mark, from Middleton, Greater Manchester. Lisa said yes and now she and Mark are planning the wedding and looking forward to the arrival of their first child in February.

The couple had been pushing Lisa’s broken-down car along a road in Rochdale, when they were struck from behind by the Citroen. Mark spent 12 days in hospital after the crash in March but has now recovered. Lisa, a nurse, suffered a fractured rib in the crash. Lisa, also 23, said: “How could a girl refuse?”